Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] has [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been , over the course of this century , an increase in the number of elderly people , in the levels of pension available from private funds and the state , and in the number of people leaving work , voluntarily or through redundancy , before the accepted retirement age ( which itself has been failing ) . |
| 2 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 3 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 4 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 5 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 6 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 7 | One field in which there has been misunderstanding , and which has attracted some adverse publicity , has been the provision of sheltered housing . |
| 8 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 9 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 10 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 11 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 12 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 13 | He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away . |
| 14 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 15 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 16 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 17 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 18 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 19 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 20 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 21 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 22 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 23 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 24 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 25 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 26 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 28 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 29 | Who knows what he has been dreaming ? |
| 30 | Hamish McLeod from the University of Edinburgh will describe what he has been doing and discuss what teachers might do . |